Hardware-drawer



lUNrTED STATES PATENT OFFICE JOHN D. WARREN, OF CHICAGO, ILLINOIS.

HARDWARE-DRAWER.

S'PEGIFICATION forming part 0f Letters Patent N0. 603,588, datd Hay 3,1898.

Application led July 18, 1896. Serial No. 599.028. (No model.)

To all whom itmay concern:

Beit known that I, JOHN D. WARREN, a citizen of the United States,residing in the city of Chicago, in the county of Cook and State ofIllinois, have invented a certain new and useful Improvement inHardware-Drawers, of which the following is a full, clear, and exactdescription, reference being had to the ,accompanying drawings, formingpart of this xo speciication.

My invention relates to certain improve.-A ments in drawersparticularly'intended for containing or holding articles of hardware,but which may be used for other purposes.

My invention consists in features of novelty hereinafter fully describedand claimed.

Figure I is a view of a part of the frame of a pigeonhole-case havingtwo drawers, one of the drawers being shown in elevation and zo theother in section on line I I, Fig. II. Fig.

II isa vertical longitudinal section taken on lin'e II 1I, Fig. I. Fig.III isa detail horizontal section taken on line III III, Fig. II.

Fig. IV isla detail horizontal section taken on 2 5 line IV IV, Fig. II.Fig. V is a perspective view of o e'of the slides. Fig. VI is a detailhorizonta section taken on line VI VI, Fig. Il.

Fig.` VII is a detail verticalsection taken on line VII VII, Fig. VI.Fig. VIII is a perspec- 3o tive view showing a modification of theslide.

Fig. IX is a detail vertical section taken on line IX IX, Fig. II. Fig.X is a modification.

I Referring to the drawings, 1 represents part of the frame of a caseformed with pigeonholes to receive drawers 2. Each drawer is provided.with a glass front 3, held in a molding 4 by grooves 5, formed in theupper and lower rails of the molding and which receive the glass. Thetop groove 5 is, as shown in -4o Fig. II, madeof considerable depth, sothat byv raising up the glass front the lower edge of the glass will beremoved from the groove 5 in the lower rail of the molding, and thus theglass can be readily removed and replaced when desired.

The drawers are supported in the pigeonholes by strips 6, made fast tothe side walls of the holes and which are received by grooves 7, made inthe outer faces of the sides of the 5o drawers, as shownin Fig. I'. Uponthese strips 6 the drawers slide as they are moved in and out.

An important feature of my invention is to provide the drawer withremovable or detachable as well as movable partitions and to so hold thepartitions inplace that they can beadjusted to the slightest degree andto provide such a means as will obviate the objec-v tion to theold-style vertical grooves in the inside ofv the drawer to receive thepartitions. I accomplish this result by providing the inner face of eachside of the drawer with a longitudinal groove 8, that preferably extendsthroughout the length of the drawer. 'lhese grooves I prefer to make indovetail form, as seen in Fig. IX.

9 represents slides having tenons 10 to t in the grooves 8. The slides9'are provided with vertical grooves 11 to receive the partitions 12. v

` When dovetail grooves 8 on the inner faces of the sides 'of the drawerand dovetail tenons 10 on the slides are used, the grooves are enlarged,as shown at 13, Figs. II and IX, to permit the application of the slidesor to per- 75 mit the tenons to enter the grooves 8. By

'thus holding the partitions in the drawer they can be moved back andforth to any degree desired and can be adjusted with much more accuracythan is the case where the drawer is provided with vertical grooves inthe inner e faces of the sides, as has heretofore been the practice, andthe objectionable feature of the vertical grooves in the sides of thedrawer is dispensed with.

As a modification of 'the slide shown in Fig. V, which is provided withthe groove or space 11 to receive the partition, the slide may be of theshape shown in Fig. VIII, with a groove or space 11. and in additionthereto a portion 9c 14, adapted to fit in a groove 15 in the verticaledge of the partition. (See Fig. VI.) Q

The partitions may be provided with springs 16, secured to theirvertical edges, (see Figs. II and VII,) so as to hold the partitionsfrom moving, after they have been adjusted, by the frictional contactbetween the springs and the sides of the drawers. i

Instead of providing the inner faces of the drawers with the grooves andthe slides with roo tenons to fit in these grooves it is evident thatthe sides of the drawer might be provided with ribs 8 and the slides beprovidedA with grooves 13 to receive these ribs, as shown in 5 Fig. X.

I claim as my invention- 1. A drawer having grooves formed in the innerfaces of the sides, slides having tenons fitting in said grooves,partitions fitting in I0 grooves formed in the slides, and springs 16secured to the partitions; substantially as set forth.

2. A drawer havin g dovetail grooves formed in the inner faces of thesides, slides having 15 dovetal tenons fitting in said grooves,partitions fitting in grooves in the slides, and springs 16 secured tothe partitions; substantially as set forth.

3. In a drawer having dovetail grooves formed in the inner faces of thesides and provided with enlargements 13, slides having dovetail tenonsfitting in said grooves, partitions fitting in grooves formed in theslides, and springs 16 secured to the partitions, substantially assetforth.

JOIIN D. WARREN.

In presence of- C. II. PEASE, J. WHITE.

